Chandigarh

Chandigarh is the popular city
and the union territory of India. This two states capital is popular as planned
city of India. It serves the Haryana and Punjab as capital. Evaluating the name
Chandigarh it means "The Fort of Chandi." Chandi is the Hindu
goddess, and city is named after his ancient temple.

The beautiful surroundings
of the city make it the more special place. The central garden with different
flora refreshes the mind, and that’s the reason local people are enjoying the
visit to these gardens every day.

Chandigarh is the first ever
designed and planned city of India. Chandigarh was planned before independence
in 1947. Its architecture is similar to international urban designs. Some big
architect's Le Corbusier, Jane Drew, Pierre Jeanerette, and Maxwell Fry
designed this stunning city of India. Chandigarh is the top-most cities of
India with uppermost per capita income in the whole country. As per survey,
city is earning at Rs.99262 as per capita income. National government study
awarded the city as the cleanest place of India in 2010.

At the time of partition British
province split the Punjab from Pakistan. Now the state was requiring new
capital. At that point government decided to plan another city known as
Chandigarh. This planned city was selected as capital of Punjab. As the city
was planned and India recently got the independence everybody focused on the
city to make it more special than other known cities of India. The new schemes were implemented to complete
the Chandigarh project. India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
gave the personal interest to create the city quicker.

Chandigarh city was connected to
the border of newly formed state Haryana. The new issue raised by this new
state was asking Chandigarh as capital of Haryana. Government of India approved
the city as union territory serving both states Punjab and Haryana as capital.

Before reaching this Indian
tourist place visitor must know about the climate conditions of the city. The
average temperature of the city in spring season goes to 16o C to 25o C in
daytime and 8° C to 19° C in the night. In autumn, temperature increases to the
maximum of 36° C. In summer, the temperature increases to 45° C (hardly).
Generally, temperature in summer remains from 35° C to 40° C. In monsoon
temperature becomes moderate. Visitors can get heavy rains in August to
September months. Winter season is little difficult in Chandigarh as the
temperature of the city goes between 7° C to 15° C in day time where the night
become so cold with 0° C to 8° C temperature.

Attractions in Chandigarh

Tourism department of Chandigarh
has maintained the city with clean roads and neat ground levels. The city is
amazingly designed, which makes is special tourist spot, especially for nature
lovers. Shimla is the closest tourist destination from Chandigarh so reaching
this planned city allows people to reach the beautiful hill station of India.

Places to see in Chandigarh
include the High Court, Secretariat office, legislative assembly, open hand
monument, rock garden, rose garden, forests and many other spots.

High Court: this government law
interpreting monument is located in Capitol Complex of the city. The double
roof of the building is special thing to watch.

Secretariat office: the
construction of secretariat office was done from 1953 to 1959. The shape of
building is similar to eight-storey real slab. However, there are only two
storeys in the building.

Legislative Assembly: This
government law-forming monument characterizes imperial grandeur, and it is near
the high court building.

Open Hand Monument: designed by
Le Corbusier the British architect is another tourist spot of Chandigarh. 85th
feet elevated giant hand made of metal sheets is intended to revolve to
indicate the direction of air.

Rock Garden: Chandigarh city is
very well known for its rock garden. The unique highly praised garden by the
professionals of the world is situated in Chandigarh. The very attractive
combination of art and fashioned made from urban and industrial wastages is
special thing of this park. This park is located between the Capitol Complex
and Sukhna Lake. This is must-visit spot for tourist and people throughout the
world are reaching Chandigarh to visit the Rock Garden. The magnificent
entrance allows people to watch surrealist management of rocks, broken chinaware,
boulders, discarded tubes, broken glasses, glass bangles, coal, building waste
and clay materials. The statues of palaces, monkeys, soldiers, village life,
temples and women are made of different waste materials. The artificial
waterfall, open air theatre and pools are some more attractions of Rock Garden.

Experts say Rock Garden is almost
the heritage site. Indian government appreciated the efforts of Nek Chand, who
was the creator of this garden. He was the Road Inspector in Engineering
Department and played the vital role in the capital formation project as well.
He worked very hard as collected the wastages of the city on his bicycle for
more than seven years. Roaming to Shivalik foothills and gathering the stones
and many other natural things is also included in his efforts. There are more
than twenty thousand rock structures with amazing designs. A stunning hut for
meditation is also built of wastages.

Nek Chand was not having any
intention for creating such a beautiful garden, but his efforts made the things
possible. This rock garden was discovered accidentally by Dr. S Sharma on 24th
February, 1973. Doctor was working for Anti-malaria campaign in the city and
during his survey, he found this garden. Government associates inaugurated the
Rock Garden in 1976 and made it free tourist spot of Chandigarh.

Rose Garden: the Asia’s largest
Garden of rose flowers is situated in Chandigarh. This Zakir Hussain Rose
Garden is spread in more than 30 acres land. There are larger than 1600
dissimilar types of roses in the garden. The beautifully planted lawns and beds
of flowers are amazing in this park. Rose festival is the occasion when people
reach this garden in the huge amount. Researchers from abroad are reaching
Chandigarh to learn about the diverse categories of roses.

Kansal Forest: Chandigarh is also
recognized as the hill station spread in 3245 hectares of land. The dense
forest around Sukhna Lake, Patiala ki Rao and Sukhna Choe are tourist spots of
Chandigarh. Kansal village is known for
thick forest situated on the outskirts of the city. However, some restrictions
are there for tourism in this place so visitors might get difficulty to enjoy
this jungle. This reserve forest is
having some limitations, and tourist has to follow certain rules to take
pleasure of the jungle. By taking entry pass from tourism department visitors
can enter to the forest. Staying at rest house and taking pleasure of the
jungle could be memorable moment for visitors.

Nepli Forest: another reserve
forest situated at short distance from the village Kansal is Nepli. The forest
of Nepli is deep and wilder than forest of Kansal. The two sides of the jungle
are bounded by small hills. The thick forest with full wild life is the best
part of this jungle. Tourist can reach to rest house for accommodation, though
they have to take the entry pass again from the tourism department.

Trekking: jungle with hills is
special spot for trekkers. Here in Chandigarh trekking places are available
such as Kalka, Jabali, Morni, Morni, Kasauli and Sabathu.

Some more spots at this Indian
tourist place are Sector 17 Plaza, Government Museum, Art Gallery, Museum of
Evolution of Life, International Dolls Museum and Hidden Valley.

Attaining to Chandigarh: Reaching
to Chandigarh is possible through different ways.

By Air: the domestic airport is
just 11 kms away from the city. Taxis and city buses are available to reach the
city from the airport. Some of the popular airlines such as Indian Airways, Jet
Airways, and Kingfisher are having direct flights from around the cities of the
country. Closest international airport to reach Chandigarh is New Delhi.

By Rail: this planned city is
connected to many major cities of India. Station is just 8kms away from the
main city Chandigarh and direct trains from New Delhi are available. Shatabdi
and Himalaya Queen are special trains to reach Chandigarh without any
difficulties. Many other trains such as Hawrah to Kalka Mail, Jodhpur Express,
Sadbhawana Express from Lucknow, Paschim Express from Mumbai, Jan Shatabdi
Express from Chennai and Sampark Kranti Express from Kerala are available to
reach Chandigarh.

By Road: this city of the hill is
properly linked through road. Countless tourism firms are having buses to reach
Chandigarh from various states. Direct buses available from Haryana, Himachal,
Punjab, and Delhi allow visitors to reach the destination easily.

Some popular gateways from
Chandigarh are Kasauli, Shimla and Chail. There are few more hill station and
tourist places near Chandigarh so reaching this planned city allow visitors to
enjoy more tourist spots of India.